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Just in time to get their target demographic of the kind of people who actually believe in the impending apocalypse psyched for the impending apocalypse, first time director Seth Rogen releases a trailer for his forthcoming comedy film This Is the End, which is about the impending apocalypse. Introducing the red band trailer are the film's stars, Rogen and James Franco, holed up in a bunker for perpetuity, charged with discussing the "finer things in life." Following the pair's foul-mouthed foray into the Armageddon, we see the first footage of the long gestating project.
Rogen and Franco, teamed with real life pals (all playing themselves) Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, and an oblivious and antagonistic Danny McBride, awake the morning after the end of the world, discussing the travesties to have befallen their planet mere hours earlier, and taking jabs at one another (and an absent Michael Cera). Check out the trailer below, and catch This Is the End (previously titled The End of the World, and before that The Apocalypse, and before that Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse) in theaters in the summer of 2013.
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Revered U.S. newsman Anderson Cooper's new talk show has been axed. The current second season of Anderson Live will be its last. The show will end after just two seasons next summer (13), due to disappointing ratings.

It seems the distraction of a hurricane can offer the perfect opportunity to quietly cancel a struggling show. Telepictures, a division of Warner Bros. Television, announced this morning to local affiliates that Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show, Anderson, will not be renewed for a third season. It will, however, remain on the air through summer 2013.
The move shouldn't come as a shock. After disappointing ratings in its first year, Telepictures revamped Anderson's format, including adding a new set and instituting same-day tapings so the veteran CNN journalist could address breaking news. Unfortunately, those changes spurred little growth this fall when a second season debuted.
Cooper isn't the only high-profile talk-show host who has struggled to break through in a mercurial daytime marketplace. New chatfests from Jeff Probst and Ricki Lake have also struggled, and even Katie Couric's highly anticipated new series bowed to only modest ratings.
In a statement, a spokesman for Warner Bros. Television said, "“We are extremely proud of Anderson and the show that he and the entire production team have produced. While we made significant changes to the format, set and produced it live in its second season, the series will not be coming back for a third season in a marketplace that has become increasingly difficult to break through. We will continue to deliver top-quality shows throughout next summer.”
In short, it may be impossible for anyone to launch a successful new talk show, so we shouldn't necessarily be worried about Cooper, who still hosts AC 360 two hours a night, five nights a week on CNN, and is currently getting windswept on assignment in New Jersey covering Hurricane Sandy. (Although, perhaps we should be concerned about him in that last instance.)
In a statement of his own, Cooper said, "“I am very proud of the work that our terrific staff has put into launching and sustaining our show for two seasons. I am also grateful to Telepictures for giving me the opportunity, and indebted to viewers, who have responded so positively. I look forward to doing more great shows this season, and though I’m sorry we won’t be continuing, I have truly enjoyed it.”
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When the long-awaited DC Comics film Justice League finally comes to fruition, audiences will undoubtedly revel in the glorious heroism of the crime-fighting, humanity-saving forces onscreen: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the like. A troupe of characters so wholly admirable that they in turn deserve performers equally as gallant to take on the task of portraying them. Talks have attached Armie Hammer to take over as the Dark Knight for this ensemble picture, and we can see why — dude is a bona fide hero. E! reports that Hammer was among several individuals who provided assistance to strangers following a car accident on Friday night.
Model Leann Tweeden, who was also among the good Samaritans who came to the aid of troubled parties after a crash on her busy street corner, revealed to E! that Hammer was a member of the ad-hoc rescue party."It's me and this guy helping the woman (2 other girls are there. One was a witness on her Vespa. The other in her car in the parking lot of the flower shop.) ... When the guy turns around, who is it?!!!! None other than: ARMIE HAMMER!!!!! (Yes, from The Social Network, J. Edgar and the upcoming The Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp!) ... The cutie Armie was in the opposite turn lane in his Audi and watched the whole thing go down and got out of his car to help."Bam. Hero. Batman status. As you can imagine, we're pretty sold on the Winklevoss taking on the role of Bruce Wayne in the developing DC assembly. And luckily, there are enough other day-savers in the acting game to comprise the rest of the cast. Check it out, Warner Bros, we've done all your casting for you.
Kate Winslet as Wonder Woman
Remember when Rose DeWitt Bukater saved two children and Richard Branson's mother from a burning building on the millionaire's private island? That's worthy of landing her the role of Diana Prince.
Patrick Dempsey as Green Lantern
Back in April, Dempsey helped saved a 17-year-old Malibu resident from his flipped car, using a crowbar and a fire extinguisher as his tools. Imagine if he had the Power Ring: that kid would have been out in seconds flat.
Anderson Cooper as The Flash
I know he's not an actor, but he is the best human to ever live. Remember when Anderson Cooper halted a news report of the atrocities in Haiti to tend to a wounded young boy? We dub thee Barry Allen.
T.I. as Aquaman
In a different turn of events, rapper T.I. once talked a man out of killing himself. Speaking to the man through a video stream, T.I. convinced the man (who was planning on jumping off a building in Atlanta) to come down to safety, promising to speak with him and encouraging to seek psychiatric help.
Werner Herzog as The Martian Manhunter
Dude got shot mid-interview with the press (we say "mid" because he actually insisted on continuing the interview), and once saved Joaquin Phoenix from a burning car. Werner freakin' Herzog.
Ryan Gosling as Superman
Because who else could pull off the most wonderful figure in superhero lore but the fight-stopping, car accident-preventing Ryan Gosling? Nobody. No offense, Henry Cavill.
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There might be concern that the developing followup to Rise of the Planet of the Apes will fall short of Summer 2011's surprise hit. Director Rupert Wyatt was on board to helm the sequel, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, until recently — as he is wont to do, our Movies Editor Matt Patches assembled a collection of potentials worthy of usurping Wyatt's directorial position. Now, The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Matt Reeves is taking the reigns on Dawn.
Reeves is most famously responsible for the frequently-discussed (with varying degrees of reverence) science-fiction/horror movie Cloverfield, and the 2010 horror-drama Let Me In. Reeves also co-created and wrote for the cult classic television drama Felicity, exhibiting a skill beyond the horror genre to which his film career of late has stuck. Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes certainly traverses into the motifs of sci-fi and horror, but is more than anything else a dramatic story about central ape Caesar.
Hopefully, Reeves can instill Dawn with the same vivacious character and depth that we found in Rise — so long as the same mind is paid to developing the story of the focal characters, rather than opting for impressive high-stakes adventure thrills, then we could be in for a worthy sequel.
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Remember this summer when reality alumna and sickeningly sweet diet liquor mogul Bethenny Frankel had a test talk show on Fox? Well, she passed the test, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Telepicturs (who makes Ellen DeGeneres' show and Rosie O'Donnell's before her) is going to produce her show, the one-name-only Bethenny, for a national audience that will go live to Fox stations across the country starting in 2013. I guess Telepictures was looking to get some experience with a non-lesbian host. Her test performed especially well in the key demographic of young women who connect with Bethenny's signature style of brash but funny outspokenness. The also like associating with skinny girls. Who doesn't?
Bethenny is going to have her work cut out for her, going up against a whole host of new and veteran talent trying to be the next Oprah, hosts like Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, Ricky Lake, Steve Harvey, Jeff Probst, and, of course Ellen herself. The best of luck to her, but somewhere, in a dark apartment in New York, Jill Zarin is stewing and trying to figure out how to get a show of her own.
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Unlike most festivals that program small films prime for discovery, the Toronto International Film Festival parades nearly 300 films, most of which are well-known going into the ten day moviegoing extravaganza. Big name, award-friendly directors like Ben Affleck, Terrence Malick, David O. Russell, and the Wachowskis arrive on the scene to show off their latest cinematic works, in hopes of stirring up buzz and hooking potential moviegoers.
As a preview of the Fall and Winter line-ups to come, TIFF 2012 was a major success. Impressively, the festival's audiences, both eager for serious, post-summer entertainment and skeptical that respected filmmakers could continue to deliver quality work, walked away wowed. Now that the festival has wound down and its winners have been announced, conversation immediately steers towards awards consideration. Which crowdpleasing films can go all the way to the Oscars?
While an Oscar win does little to impact the quality of a movie (as long as they come out, people who see them in theaters win!), TIFF's award winners and debuts have gone on to see major contention in the Academy Awards races and, in turn, box office success. Will this year follow suit? Here are the Toronto movies we think have what it takes to take home gold:
Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell's follow up to 2010's Oscar-nominated The Fighter has all the makings of a Best Picture contender — including a TIFF Audience Award, shared with previous winners Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech. With two knockout performances by Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, that miraculously weave comedy into a dark story of mental illness, Silver Linings Playbook is a human story that never loses itself in schmaltz. Even with the "true story" weight of the material, Russell's unique voice oozes from every moment of the film, which should help him snag a Best Director and Best Screenplay nomination.
Cloud Atlas
Andy and Lana Wachowski teamed up with German auteur Tom Tykwer to realize the three-hour experimental narrative Cloud Atlas which cross-cuts six stories following dozens of characters and spanning hundreds of years. Reviews were mixed at TIFF (although it knocked our socks off), so its Oscar potential is up in the air. There's an unmatched level of craft on display in Cloud Atlas, making it a shoe-in for a technical awards at the end of the season, but if audiences manage to connect with it on a existential level — as intended by the juxtaposition of characters and their souls' many lives — it could blossom into a Best Picture contender. While Tom Hanks has been a viable actor candidate in the past, Cloud Atlas is definitely an ensemble movie. No one steals the spotlight, making the star (and Oscar possibility) of Cloud Atlas the movie as a whole.
Anna Karenina
Period dramas get a bad rap, belittled as "Oscar fodder" rather than actual efforts to turn classic material into relevant, modern movies. Thankfully, Atonement and Hanna director Joe Wright delivered a stunning riff on famed Russian love story Anna Karenina that should have prejudging naysayers eating crow when it hits theaters this Fall. Wright heightens the reality of his story by constructing Anna Karenina like an immersive ballet or opera. The production design and score are destined for Oscar nominations, but under the eye of Wright, every element seems to bleed into one another — including the great performances by Keira Knightley and Aaron Johnson. The film won't win everyone over, but Wright's hand will hopefully be evident enough to earn him a Best Director nomination.
The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson's latest has been lauded for its 70mm cinematography, which should make it a lock for the Best Cinematography Oscar, but its leading men should be the talk of the town come year's end. Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman give two impressive and totally different performances in The Master: one unrestrained and feral, the other tempered and controlling. Both Oscar-worthy.
Argo
Ben Affleck's third feature kicked Toronto off on a high note, the real-life thriller wowing with its eclectic ensemble and Affleck once again delivering tense, personal action. Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood, and Argo may be the greatest story never told: the film follows a group of producers who whip up a fake production in order to covertly sneak Americans out of the Iranian revolution. With Affleck, Oscar voters may see a new great in their midst. Throwing him a few awards would be fanfare for the revelation.
Hyde Park on the Hudson
We were underwhelmed by Hyde Park on the Hudson, a film chronicling President Franklin D. Roosevelt's affair with his cousin during the King and Queen of England's first visit to the United States. There isn't much of a story (and it recalls a better personal interpretation of political strife: The King's Speech). But it has one major component going for it: Bill Murray. His FDR is charming and complex, and while the film may not live up to his grandeur, the Oscars may see through the mess with a Best Actor nomination.
Amour and No
Not to be overshadowed by the major studios releases, both Michael Haneke's Amour and Pablo Larraín's No won over audiences at TIFF and could easily pop up in the the Best Foreign Language Film — and heck, even the Best Picture — conversation come Oscar time. Haneke's devastating look at old age and the waning years before death will be hard to top as the year's biggest tearjerker. No plays like a '80s Chilean version of Mad Men; starring Gael Garcia Bernal, the film tells the true story of a group of ad wizards who use their tactics of selling Coca-Cola and toothpaste to help campaign against the dictator Pinochet in an unprecedented election.
The Impossible
Juan Antonio Bayona's dramatization of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has the chops to be an Oscar contender, but it might be too good to actually win over voters. Shocking and heartfelt, Bayona rips apart his two lead actors, Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, in an effort to accurately depict devastation. The first half is a frightening wonder (sure to be lauded with Special Effect Oscars next year), but if too many Academy members turn away in hopes of keeping their lunches down, The Impossible may not see the love it deserves.
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While kids and families are off chasing 3-D fish, adults can follow a different kind of beast in Sony's Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth installment of the hugely successful Screen Gems franchise (with nearly $700 million in worldwide dollars). Paul W.S. Anderson, who has directed three of the five installments, is back along with Milla Jovavich as Alice, who this time fights alongside a resistance movement to battle the undead and other evil forces. At a tight 95 minutes, the R-rated horror action flick is the number one film this weekend earning $21.1 million aided by the added bite of the IMAX giant screen showings.
Retribution in Imax did better than 2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife. For the Domestic market, Retribution is expected to get $3 million for the weekend. Internationally, in Imax, the movie will gross a projected $3.1 million for the opening weekend for a total worldwide take of $6.1 million. The Pixar brand is one of the most beloved in the world of movies and with good reason. The films have earned over $7 billion in worldwide box office since the first Toy Story film was released in 1995. Now Disney presents Finding Nemo, the second highest grossing Pixar film (behind only Toy Story 3's $1 billion plus) with $865.6 million in worldwide receipts, only this time in 3-D and the results were solid if not spectacular. The film debuted this weekend in second place with $17.5 million. The Possession from Lionsgate takes third with $5.8 million and has earned $41.2 million to date. The PG-13 horror film enjoyed dominance in the marketplace over its first two weekends having benefitted from a perfect release date. Weinstein Co's. Lawless starring Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy takes fourth place with $4.2 million this weekend and will earn $30.1 million total by Sunday night. The film has been in release three weeks.
Focus Features animated 3-D release ParaNorman with $3.039 million narrowly edged out the number six film and has earned $49.3 million to date. Lionsgate's The Expendables 2 has proven to be one of the bright spots of the late-summer releases since its release in mid-August. Another $3.030 million lands the film at number six and a North American gross of just over $80 million by the end of the weekend. There has been lots of talk lately about the slow box office at the end of summer and a super low grossing weekend last week. Fortunately, this will be offset by the strength of the next weekend when four new wide releases make their mark, but also the September 28 weekend when Sony's spectacular Looper and their 3-D animated Hotel Transylvania debut in what early tracking is showing to be shaping up as an unusually strong late-September box office frame. Outside of the top 10, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master earned $729,745 — but in just five theaters, its per-theater average was a spectacular and record-breaking $145,949. More:'Dark Knight Rises' Passes $1 Billion Mark No Box Office Love for 'Oogleloves' '2016 Obama's America' Box Office Surprise.

With the cool autumnal breezes rolling in, so too are Hollywood's biggest, award-hopeful films. Regardless of whether or not it is actually fall quite yet, the little kiddies are back at school, pumpkin spice is being added to everything, and there are only a few days left until staring wistfully at your sweater and scarf collection becomes a summer memory, and wearing becomes the reality. So to prepare us all for the glorious days of movie-watching ahead of us, we've broken it all down for you. So start saving your pennies, coordinate schedules with your film buff buddies and take a bite out of the tasty cinematic offerings that are ripe for the picking. It's like an apple orchard, but glitzier!
Check out the line-up below and get more picks tailored to your tastes in our Fall Movie Guide!
September
September 14
Finding Nemo 3D: A re-release of the popular Pixar film, this time in 3D!
Resident Evil: Retribution: The fighting against the Umbrella Corporation and all those pesky undead continues!
10 Years: A high school reunion with Channing Tatum and Friends.
Arbitrage: Hedge-funder in trouble: a ponzi scheme gone awry. Bernie Madoff-y, huh? The horror, the horror!
Bangkok Revenge: An emotionless war machine returns to the place where his parents were killed to exact ... (you guessed it!) revenge.
Brawler: Brothers! Betrayal! Fight clubs! New Orleans! A battle to the death!
Step Up to the Plate: A cooking documentary about father/son culinary duo the Bras.
Liberal Arts: Lost 30something, a girl named Zibby, and love. But in college.
The Master: The hotly-anticipated Scientology-but-not film from P.T. Anderson.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Stephen Chbosky's classic young adult novel comes to life.
Stolen: A Nicholas Cage film about a daughter locked in a taxi's trunk.
The Trouble with the Truth: A failed marriage reconsidered, now with Lea Thompson!
September 19
Radio Unnameable: Documentary about legendary New York City disc jockey Bob Fass who pioneered free expression on the airwaves with his long running program of the same name.
Tears of Gaza: A war documentary that follows three children through war and the period after ceasefire.
September 21
Dredd: An action/sci-fi/thriller about fighting a drug war in a big futuristic city. In 3D!
End of Watch: A routine traffic stop gone really, really bad.
House at the End of the Street: Katniss Jennifer Lawrence becomes a scream queen.
17 Girls: A Belgian teen pregnancy pact film!
About Cherry: James Franco is the boyfriend of a porn star, and Dev Patel probably loves her?
Backwards: Life for an Olympic hasbeen-turned-coach is tough.
The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best: Brooklyn boys form a band.
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel: A documentary about the life and work of the influential fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar, Diana Vreeland.
The Other Son: A French film about two young men--an Israeli and Palestinian--who discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Head Games: A sports documentary to uncover the truth about the consequences of head injuries.
How to Survive a Plague: AIDS documentary about the activism that stopped the disease from being a death sentence.
My Uncle Rafael: A comedy about a reality show!
The War of the Buttons: A French film about kid gangs and a Jewish girl in danger of being discovered by the Nazis in occupied France, comes to the states.
Trouble with the Curve: Clint Eastwood and Justin Timberlake make a baseball movie! Now get off my damn lawn.
Unconditional: Two childhood friends reconnect after many years and sad stories to exact revenge on the woman's husband's murderer.
You May Not Kiss the Bride: A pet photographer (seriously) has to marry Katharine McPhee's Croatian bride character. Warning: zany!
September 28
Hotel Transylvania: Adam Sandler is Dracula in an animated kids' film.
Looper: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis play one guy who has to kill himself, from the future. Mob stuff! Time travel!
The Barrens: The Jersey Devil of the state's Pine Barrens is hunting Stephen Moyer, you guys!
Bringing Up Bobby: Bill Pullman is in a family comedy written by Famke Janssen.
Won't Back Down: A serious drama about poor moms trying to do right by their kid's education.
The Other Dream Team: A documentary about the 1992 Lithuanian basketball team who got help from the Grateful Dead (seriously) to win at the Barcelona Olympics.
Starbuck: A sperm donor gets sued by the 142 kids he helped conceive. Yikes!
October
October 5
Butter: A comedy about a butter-carving prodigy. Do you need to know anything else?
Frankenweenie: A kid who just wants his dead dog to be...ALIIIIIIVE!
Sinister: Creepy horror flick with Ethan Hawke about a true-crime novelist who discovers footage revealing why a family was murdered in his new home. Sleep tight!
Taken 2: Liam Neeson will find you, and he will hunt you down, and he will kill you. Again!
Wuthering Heights: Another film version of the Emily Bronte novel.
Decoding Deepak: A documentary about Deepak Chopra by his son.
The Oranges: Hugh Laurie has an affair with his best friend's daughter in New Jersey. Woopsies!
The Paperboy: Yes, this is the movie where Zac Efron gets peed on by Nicole Kidman. It's also about a reporter and a death row inmate.
Pitch Perfect: A capella girls get funky thanks to singing 90s R&amp;B tunes. But funny!
V/H/S: All they wanted to do was steal a video tape, and now they're living a horror film! Everyone's worst nightmare, right?
Wake in Fright: An Australian drama thriller about a man named John Grant and a rough outback town called Bundanyabba, and what happens when the two meet.
October 12
Argo: Ben Affleck knows that the real way to free six Americans in Iran is by pretending to film a movie! Chris Messina's also in it, with Bryan Cranston, so it seems like a no-brainer here.
Here Comes the Boom: Kevin James is a high school biology teacher who wants to become mixed-martial arts fighter. You know, to save his school! Natch.
3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom: A comedy about drugs and humilation.
Atlas Shrugged: Part II: Atlas Shrugged...again!
Least Among Saints: A roughed-up soldier and a boy from a broken home strike up an unlikely friendship.
Middle of Nowhere: A movie about finding yourself while your husband's in jail.
Nobody Walks: Quick! Lena Dunham made something! It's about a young artist! Everybody dissect it!
Seven Psychopaths: Pretty much everybody good is in this movie about a struggling screenwriter whose friends kidnap a gangster's Shih Tzu.
Simon &amp; The Oaks: A Swedish WWII coming-of-age film.
Smashed: A marriage built on booze struggles when the wife gets sober.
Stories We Tell: A Sarah Polley documentary about looking back at familial events.
October 19
Paranormal Activity 4: Some mean ghosts do some f**ked up scary s**t to a new family. This time it involves the neighbors!
Alex Cross: A detective vows to track down the killer of his family.
The First Time: A romcom about high school kids. And probably doing it.
Killing Them Softly: Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini and Ray Liotta in a mob film. Is there anything else you need to know?
That's What She Said: New York City lady misadventures that are NOT about Michael Scott, apparently.
Yogawoman: A documentary about...yoga! The title's so misleading, isn't it?
October 26
The Big Wedding: Oh look! Katherine Heigl's in another movie about a wedding. This time with Diane Keaton and Robert DeNiro.
Fun Size: A big Halloween party! A baby who must be watched! Johnny Knoxville. Somebody call the shenanigans police!
Chasing Mavericks: A surfer movie with Gerard Butler. Hang ten, etc.
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D: Gory alternate reality. In 3D!
Citadel: An agoraphobic dad and renegade priest team up to save his daughter from a gang of feral kids. So...not about a military school in South Carolina then.
Cloud Atlas: The three hour epic with every actor ever in the world telling intertwined stories across millennia.
The Loneliest Planet: A backpacking film with Gael Garcia Bernal in the wilds of Georgia (not the state).
Sleep Tight: A Spanish horror film about how safe you really are at home. Yep, sleep tight indeed.
The Sessions: The heartwarming story of a man on an iron lung who just wants to get laid ... with the help of his priest and a sex therapist.
October 31
On The Road: That Jack Kerouac novel-turned-movie with Kristen Stewart
November
November 2
Flight: Robert Zemeckis directs Denzel Washington, John Goodman and Don Cheadle in a film about a plane crash.
The Man with the Iron Firsts: Eli Roth and RZA make a really bloody movie about a blacksmith in China.
Wreck-It Ralph: A video arcade game baddie just wants to be good, you guys!
This Must Be the Place: Sean Penn does his best Robert Smith impression while trying to hunt down a Nazi.
High Ground: A documentary about the emotional journey of a team of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans as they climb a mountain in the Himalayas.
Jack and Diane: A girl's awakened sexual desire for another girl makes her maybe become a werewolf. Seriously.
A Late Quartet: A famous string quartet gets too big for their britches to the point of potential self-destruction. Oh, and Christopher Walken's in it.
November 9
Lincoln: One of the many Abraham Lincoln movies being made, this time with Daniel Day-Lewis and no slaying of vampires.
Skyfall: The next installment of Daniel Craig's James Bond empire.
Nature Calls: A hijacked boy scout trip to remember? Sounds super-wacky!
November 16
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2: This needs no description. C'mon.
Anna Karenina: Because Keira Knightley cannot go three months without making an epic period piece. This time based on the Tolstoy novel.
Rust and Bone: A Belgian film with Marion Cotillard that involves a killer whale accident and a love story.
November 21
Rise of the Guardians: A children's animated film about Jack Frost and saving the kids of the world from an evil spirit named Pitch.
Red Dawn: A remake of the 1984 film about a group of teenagers saving their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.
Life of Pi: Based on the best-selling novel is the story of a boy named Pi and his shipwrecked companions. Mainly a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger.
Silver Linings Playbook: A feel-good holiday drama about two messed up people teaming up to make good.
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The Pixar brand is one of the most beloved in the world of movies — and with good reason. The films have earned over $7 billion in worldwide box office since the first Toy Story film was released in 1995.
Now Disney presents Finding Nemo — the second highest-grossing Pixar film (behind only Toy Story 3’s $1 billion plus) with $865.6 million in worldwide receipts — only this time in 3-D. And the results should be spectacular. Much like the 2011 3-D re-release of The Lion King (which opened with a whopping $30.1 million), Nemo should have similar success while also pulling us out of the box office doldrums and a $30 million plus debut.
While kids and families are off chasing 3-D fish, adults can follow a different kind of 3-D beast in Sony’s Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth installment of the hugely successful Screen Gems franchise (with nearly $700 million in worldwide dollars). Paul W.S. Anderson, who has directed three of the five installments, is back along with Milla Jovovich as Alice, who this time fights with a resistance movement to battle the undead and other evil forces. At a tight 95 minutes, the R-rated horror action flick should draw box office blood in the realm of $25 million, aided by the added bite of the IMAX giant screen showings.
Lionsgate has led the box office over the past two weeks with The Possession, which has earned about $35 million to date. The PG-13 horror film has enjoyed dominance in the marketplace and benefited from a perfect release date. In this, its third weekend, it should possess around $5 million in new box office dollars.
It will, of course, have to contend with Weinstein Co’s. Lawless, which has been particularly strong lately, holding at number one mid-week where it has been locked in a battle with the conservative documentary 2016: Obama’s America, which is closing in on $30 million in domestic revenue. Lawless should quick draw around $4 million this weekend and also have around $30 million total by Sunday night.
Lionsgate’s The Expendables 2 has proven to be one of the bright spots of the late-summer releases, earning close to $77 million since its release in mid-August. Another $3 million should land the film in the Top 5 and a North American gross of over $80 million by the end of the weekend.
There has been lots of talk lately about the slow box office at the end of summer and a super low-grossing weekend last week. Fortunately, this will be offset by the strength of not only this weekend, but the upcoming Sept. 28 weekend, when Sony’s spectacular Looper and their 3-D animated Hotel Transylvania debut in what early tracking is showing to be shaping up as an unusually strong late-September box office frame.